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Cartage vs Transportation - What's the difference?

cartage | transportation |

As nouns the difference between cartage and transportation

is that cartage is the transport of goods by cart; carting while transportation is the act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.

cartage

English

Noun

  • The transport of goods by cart; carting
  • A charge made for such transport
  • Quotations

    * 1848 Thomas Carlyle - Thomas Carlyle *: Railways are forming in one quarter of this earth, canals in another, much cartage is wanted * 1842 Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners - Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law *: Two-thirds of the usual expense of street cleansing is the expense of cartage , which, with a proper adaptation of the sewers, is wholly unnecessary.

    transportation

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
  • We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation .
  • (historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
  • Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation .
  • (US) A means of conveyance.
  • Nice transportation , dude, but your brake lights are busted.
  • (US) A ticket or fare.
  • * 1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
  • Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?"
    (Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.)
    Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."